Narnie Sarnie - Banana Sandwich? Pobbies - something dad always liked - yuk My husband`s mum always pours boiling water onto the onions to soften slightly and then drains and adds vinegar and sugar. As for the layers of Potato, Onion and Bacon, my mum used to cook this in the oven with milk. It separated slightly but oh it was good comfort food. Maureen

Champ sounds to be like they would now make on a T.V. cookery programme. They do seem to be obsessed with scally onions. Horlicks Tablets, used to love those. Crikey Gay, this is like a trip around the sweet shop. You missed out wine gums and aniseed balls. Well, if we keep reading the list and adding to it instead of eating, that should help, or at least help you and me. Good job I have no Mars bars available now! Olive

Banana Sandwich - sounds right, but I cannot stand the things. Well, I cannot believe I did not work out pobs. We had a friend who used to use these mixed up sayings, anacalypta, anaglypta wallpaper. These things also make me laugh. Olive

Pauline Kirschner wrote: > Remember when women's trousers were called 'slacks'? > Dating ourselves, aren't we? :o) Not really, they still are called slacks here in Canada ;-) Strides I've heard but mostly from older people in reminiscence. Here it's either slacks, pants or jeans and none of the terms are gender specific. Katie Ontario

Eeee, Pamla, I'm just up t'road from you, Westhoughton! We go shopping in Leigh sometimes! I will look out for someone with a pie butty and a red carnation in her buttonhole! Ian

My mother in law used to call it "paralysed milk" and the pasteurised "Cow milk", where she thought the other stuff came from I never knew! Ian

Darn it, forgot about that Club, the Puddin' club! Should have known degg, my Nan used to call her watering can a "Deggin' Can". Didn't know about the esshole but ponful makes sense now! Ian

Let's have a go, Bren. arto, is that "are you", art thou, pronounce "Art 'oo". Unless it's that little dustbin on legs in Star Wars! Beeboes is sleep, to a kiddie. Cum on, up them dancers. Club is HP. Not sure on the next one; but fast is fixed; stuck fast, made fast. Gam is "Game" as in a gamecock, Keep dunno again; mard is soft or whiny, or overloving. Mendin is getting better, ponful I dunno, sauce is cheek and sugar is a euphemism for "dear ME!" How did I do?? Try these, "Fa'se", pronounced Fause, or "Hoo's a wick 'un!" Ian

My mother still talks about a "degging can" for watering the garden. Never heard this word used since except by her since I moved away from Lancs. Long time since I've come across "mard" but it struck a chord as it was used a lot in my youth. I think it signified "spoilt brat" as much as soft - no place for such a term in today's PC world. "in the club" is still fairly common and not restricted to Lancashire. David At 17:04 11/09/2005, you wrote: >club- pregnant >degg - water >mard - soft -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 267.10.19 - Release Date: 07/09/2005

> "mawpin scom"... > > Could it be moping, not sure about the scom Wasn't sure how to spell the last so the pronunciation would come through... maybe "scaum"? Like "calm" with an "s" in front. Moping sounds right. It was used like... Poor thing, she's nowt but a mawpin scaum. Sally in TN, USA

Am really enjoying this. Kate and Sidney, now that rings a bell, still do not like the Sidney bit. Making a list for my family as they will probably have not heard of half the expressions that we can remember, or the food. Never heard of tin lally butties, but have heard of condensed milk butties. Pants - keks, yes but I thought strikes came from Australia. What is shaky milk, milk shake? We used to say bobees for going to sleep Narnie Sarnie - I give up on this one. Champ and Colcannon - give up on this one too. Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels are still going. Little Hovis loaves - the tins came in a strip of maybe 4 or 6 and when the break was baked the name was on the side of the little loaves. lither - leather wortch, bepowlert an' pown ???? pobbies - warm milk and pieces of bread and a bit of sugar. e'en, neb - neb cap, or peaked cap Preston pies - potato pies without meat. Raw onion peeled and then sliced into thin slices and split up and then put into dish of malt vinegar with a dash of sugar. With so many words to use it does make you wonder why people are so stuck on the one swear word today. Olive

How about a "Narnie Sarnie" and a cuppa tea made with shaky milk. Liverpudlian I think. On 11 Sep 2005, at 13:57, Ian Winterbottom wrote: >> Why did Grandma used to say - get some best butter, what is butter >> that is not best? > Maggie-Ann, margarine. How about "tin-lally butties", condensed milk > sandwiches? > >> My son now says why do we say you drink out of a plastic glass. He >> thinks a glass is a glass, made of glass, his idea is a plastic >> receptacle. > > My grandsons look at me "gone out" when I say "Let me get my pants > on", meaning trousers. To them "pants" are underwear! When I was > younger we also called them "keks" or the more upmarket "strides". > Ian > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Please keep signature blocks to four lines or less. Do not include > surnames you're researching as that impedes the interactive search > process. > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >

In a message dated 11/09/2005 23:41:26 GMT Standard Time, heeren@usit.net writes: "mawpin scom"... Could it be moping, not sure about the scom Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire www.members.aol.com/victoroly/genealogy.htm www.members.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk

Great selection, does anyone remember "Rogers"? No idea why it was called that, it was layers of potatoes, onion, bacon, repeat the process, final layer being potatoes and then baked in the oven. I love it but can't persuade my family to let me have it. Brian On 11 Sep 2005, at 13:29, VictorOly@aol.com wrote: > The weather's decidedly grizzly and cool today and all this food set > me off > thinking about other oldfashioned comfort foods. Forgive me if they > are a > bit mixed up and if some of my Dad's Irish and My Mum's Belgian foods > may have > crept it: > > * Steak and Kidney pie or pud > * Rice Pudding > * Finny 'Addock (smoked haddock) > * Fish and Chips and Specials > * Black Peas at the fairground > * Oatcakes and crumpets > * Oven Bottom Muffins > * Cheesebake (mashed spuds with cheese and onion) served with > crispy > bacon and tomatoes > * Bubble and Squeak > * My Dad's Champ and Colcannon > * Sausage and Mash and Onion Gravy > * Cheese and Onion Pie > * Mince Meat and Potato Stew (pie without the crust), which my > husband > rather unkindly called 'splodge'. > * Pea soup with Bacon Ribs > * Bread and Butter Pudding > * Apple Pie > * Rhubarb Crumble > * Treacle Tart > * Lemon Meringue Pie > * And endless cakes, puddings, bicuits and buns > Not many vegetables seemed to make it onto the menu :( > > This was sample of 1950's Lancashire Staples, that I learned to make, > but > that my son and daughter might still need me to show them. > > > I'm starving now, must go and make lunch. > GAY > > > Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire > www.members.aol.com/victoroly/genealogy.htm > www.members.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm > _www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm_ > (http://www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm) > _www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk_ > (http://www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk/) > > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > The Lancaster Canal Trust: http://www.thelanky.co.uk/ > Welcome to Bolton!: http://www.bolton.org.uk/ > Liverpool City Council: > http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/graphics_version/root/Home/index.asp > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

We've really got this thing going now Eileen. My Mother made scouse of course, using the remains of a leg of lamb or similar from Sunday. However, Pat has developed this, we always cook lamb the French way with Rosemary and Garlic and a good addition of wine to the sauce/gravy. All this is combined with Barley, Carrots, Onions and Potatoes and the result is an epicurian delight, not just a stretch out the stocks one. Careful though, you may end up as the Lancastrian Rick Stein or Erica anyway. Brian On 11 Sep 2005, at 10:28, Littlmum@aol.com wrote: > Skellands was on the corner opposite the Lingholme Pub, I lived not > far from > there. Scouse was done in pan on the top of the cooker or hob. > anything > they had went into it. > > Comes from Lobckaus and Danish dish I believe brought to Liverpool > area by > the sailors. > > Eileen > > > > > ==== LANCSLIFE Mailing List ==== > Scouser.com: http://www.scouser.com/core.html > University of Liverpool: http://www.liv.ac.uk/ > Bolton links: http://bold.bolton.gov.uk/naughton/bolton.htm > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

My grandmother used to say of someone that they were a "mawpin scom"... that's what it sounded like... usually referred to a pitiful, whiny person... Does that ring a bell with anyone? What does it mean? Sally in TN, USA

In a message dated 11/09/2005 23:12:23 GMT Standard Time, pamelas@blueyonder.co.uk writes: now my favourite poem Yes, Mine too! I saw an adaptation on TV once and it made me cry. GAY Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire www.members.aol.com/victoroly/genealogy.htm www.members.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm _www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm_ (http://www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm) _www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk_ (http://www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk/)

My grandmother used to say, "please yourself & at least one person is happy". Sally in TN, USA

My grandmother was from Bolton & made this, in my modern version which we love, I make Pot Roast one day & the meat & potato pie from the leftovers the next day. In case Pot Roast isn't the same in UK, a beef roast is put in a slow cooker with potatoes, onions, lots of carrots & dried onion soup mix. It cooks all day & is outstanding. What is left is all put in a plastic bag so the juices can settle in. Next day I cut everything up to eating size, mix it with a can of cream of mushroom soup, dump into a crust, top with a crust & bake until lovely & brown. It gets cut like a pie & eaten quickly here with applesauce. The leftovers from this.... if you have any, reheat beautifully in a microwave... altho' I like it cold, too. The slow cooking makes that deep dark gravy that is so tasty. Sally in TN, USA

Here is a weblink to the poem I sent: http://oldpoetry.com/poetry/46422 Hope you enjoy it. Bonny Brid actually turned out to be a girl, I have a photograph of her taken in the 1930s/40s best wishes, GAY Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire www.members.aol.com/victoroly/genealogy.htm www.members.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm _www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm_ (http ://www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm) _www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk_ (http://www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk/)